Friday, August 12, 2011

How light bulbs

How Ampoules WorkthumbnailLight bulbs are used to prevent sterile liquid medicines before they are injected by a syringe. Light bulbs have been around since the beginning of Christian, when they were used to store the blood of the saints and relatives after the death. Today, we use them routinely in medicine and pharmaceutical products such as ships of small sterile transport of medicines and drugs. The concept of operation of the light bulbs is simple: they are hermetic, sealed vessel that prevents everything outside of the bulb to infiltrate.

So a light bulb to do its job, which is inside a bulb must remain pure contamination. This is why the bulb containers are generally solid glass. Because the physical properties of the glass are therefore able to keep gases and liquids in the bulb in and gases and liquids that are outside of the bulb in, bulbs of glass storage are preferable kinds of cheaper plastic.

To keep the health bulb and slow decay, bulbs are sealed. Hermetic seals are airtight. Most bulbs are sealed with heat after the air inside the bulb has been replaced with an inert gas. Inert gases are non-reactive gas, even though they occupy the excess volume in the bulb, they make little impact on its content.

Light bulbs work well for storing pharamaceuticals and specimins, because they are small and can easily be stored. Because some materials should be stored at a specific temperature, certain bulbs need to be stored. To increase the shelf life of the sample of the bulb, light bulbs can be frozen in cryogenics. Because inside of the bulb is sterile, the cooling process protect the chemical composition of the contents of the bulb seriously slowing any reaction that would take place.

The bulb can be opened after storage by simply breaking the glass. Back at the top of the bulb should be thoroughly broken, leaving content ready lamp on the bottom half for the extraction. Take not too long to retrieve contents of the bulb. Once the hermetic seal of the bulb is broken, the bulb protection structure no longer works!

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